DO NOT HUG CHARLIE HEBDO TO DEATH
Like it’s predecessor Hara Kiri (196-1969), Charlie Hebdo (1969-1981; 1992-) is a magazine that was & is “bête et méchant” (dumb and nasty). Large part of those who say to support it now – after the malicious murder of magazine staff and their police protectors – the indignation felt by many is mostly spontaneous and well intended (the exceptions are politicians who use their tactics of recuperation as always) but many of them, especially those outside of France have no idea what the magazine stood for.

Charlie Hebdo was against all forms of authority, not just that of muslim fanatics.Their satire was biting and directed at christian, jewish and political faith of all kinds as merciless as against islam fanatics. When I see all those priests of different religions coming out in support of Charlie Hebdo, one can know that it is circumstances that force them in taking such a position, one of them being to curtail islamophobia. Then I see all those demonstrators holding up placards with “Je suis Charlie” I know that many of them have hardly or never seen any of the radical cartoons and comics published by Charlie Hebdo.

When all those demonstrators want to be sincere about their unconditional support for freedom of speech, writing and drawing, they need to realise that freedom of expression does not flower in a climate of proclaimed “national or international unity”, however understandable such a reaction is.

Charlie Hebdo, will not rise from the ashes of the executed cartoonists, when it is hugged to death by supporters who do not really know what they are supporting.

Just imagine as I did this nice lady demonstrating in Nice with her placard “Je suis Charlie”… would she have hold up one of the covers of Charlie Hebdo, like this one?

“JE SUIS CHARLIE” misses the point (and is just a mechanical easy copy cat slogan)

YOU can NOT be CHARLIE
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This is the original caption of this photograph (left hand version): “A woman holds a poster reading ‘I am Charlie’ with a rose, at a gathering in Nice, southeastern France, to express solidarity with those killed in an attack at the Paris offices of weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. Three masked gunmen shouting ìAllahu akbar!î stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing 12 people, including its editor, before escaping in a car. It was France’s deadliest postwar terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)”